Judith B. Kosasih

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee VA Medical Center

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Judith B. Kosasih is a pioneering researcher in rehabilitation robotics, with a focus on developing engaging, task-oriented therapies for stroke survivors. Her work addresses a critical challenge in neurorehabilitation: overcoming learned non-use and motivating impaired arm use in patients with hemiplegia. In her most cited paper (21 citations), she introduced three key strategies for motivating arm use, emphasizing that motor recovery depends on more than just physical strength. Kosasih’s development of TheraDrive, a low-cost, game-based therapy system (12 citations), demonstrated the feasibility of affordable, accessible stroke rehabilitation for home and clinical settings. She also created HERALD, a software platform for task-oriented robot-assisted therapy, integrated with a functional electrical stimulation (FES) grasp glove to enable real activities of daily living (ADL) training (15 citations). By combining robotics, gaming, and purposeful tasks, Kosasih’s contributions have advanced patient motivation and functional recovery, making rehabilitation more effective and engaging. Her work continues to inspire accessible, patient-centered solutions in stroke therapy.